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Дневник - большое подспорье
Завершающий, двенадцатый том ненумерованного Собрания сочинений Лидии Корнеевны Чуковской, подготовленного ее дочерью Еленой Чуковской. Верстку этой книги Елена Цезаревна успела прочесть в больнице за несколько дней до своей кончины. Лидия Чуковская вела подробные дневники с 1938 по 1995 год. На основе этих дневников были составлены ее трехтомные "Записки об Анне Ахматовой" и том "Из дневника. Воспоминания", вошедшие в Собрание сочинений. Для настоящей книги отобраны записи о литературных и общественных событиях, впечатления о прочитанных книгах, портреты современников и мысли автора о предназначении литературного творчества и собственного дневника.
409 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2015
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About the author
Lydia Chukovskaya
28 books44 followersLydia Chukovskaya wrote 'Sofia Petrovna', a harrowing story about life during the Great Purges. But it was a while before this story would achieve widespread recognition. Out of favour with the authorities, yet principled and uncompromising, Chukovskaya was unable to hold down any kind of steady employment. But gradually, she started to get published again: an introduction to the works of Taras Shevchenko, another one for the diaries of Miklouho-Maclay.
By the time of Stalin's death in 1953, Chukovskaya had become a respected figure within the literary establishment, as one of the editors of the cultural monthly 'Literaturnaya Moskva'. During the late 1950s, 'Sofia Petrovna' finally made its way through Russia's literary circles, in manuscript form through samizdat. Khrushchev's Thaw set in, and the book was about to be published in 1963, but was stopped at the last moment for containing "ideological distortions". Indomitable as ever, Chukovskaya sued the publisher for full royalties and won. The book was eventually published in Paris in 1965, but without the author's permission and under the somewhat inaccurate title 'The Deserted House'. There were also some unauthorized alterations to the text. The following year, a New York publisher published it again, this time with the original title and text fully restored.
By the time of Stalin's death in 1953, Chukovskaya had become a respected figure within the literary establishment, as one of the editors of the cultural monthly 'Literaturnaya Moskva'. During the late 1950s, 'Sofia Petrovna' finally made its way through Russia's literary circles, in manuscript form through samizdat. Khrushchev's Thaw set in, and the book was about to be published in 1963, but was stopped at the last moment for containing "ideological distortions". Indomitable as ever, Chukovskaya sued the publisher for full royalties and won. The book was eventually published in Paris in 1965, but without the author's permission and under the somewhat inaccurate title 'The Deserted House'. There were also some unauthorized alterations to the text. The following year, a New York publisher published it again, this time with the original title and text fully restored.
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